YA-horror
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The Black Girl Survives in This One – Multi-Author Horror Anthology – REVIEW
While I love horror as a genre, I don’t always love the stereotypical tropes that come along with the genre. I don’t love how women, people of color, and especially black women are always sidelined in horror stories (if they’re acknowledged at all). The Black Girl Survives in This One aims to upend that and place black Continue reading
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Review: Cursed Cruise by Victoria Fulton and Faith McClaren
Cursed Cruise is the follow-up to Victoria Fulton and Faith McClaren’s novel, Horror Hotel. I accidentally jumped into Cursed Cruise without reading Horror Hotel. Luckily, this follow-up is more of a standalone than a direct sequel. There are callbacks to Horror Hotel, but they are quickly explained and not relied on for the main plot. Cursed Cruise follows the Ghost Gang, a Continue reading
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Friday, Book One: The First Day of Christmas by Ed Brubaker and Marcos Martín
Ed Brubaker is quickly becoming a favorite comic creator of mine. Since December, I’ve devoured his graphic novels Night Fever and Where the Body Was, which were 5-star and 4-star reads for me, respectively. Since then, I’ve been picking up everything I see by Brubaker at my local bookstores. I jumped at the chance to Continue reading
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The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert: Review
It was the cover of The Bad Ones that first drew me in. How could it not? It’s a literal weeping angel statue. It’s the kind of cover Doctor Who fans dream of. While the cover made me pick it up, the story kept me hooked. The book starts as a frothy young-adult mystery, which Continue reading